Page:1954 Juvenile Delinquency Testimony.pdf/92

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.
80
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

The Chairman. I wonder if you could net in your own way sum- marize this for the record, Of course, the whole statement may go in the record in its entirety.

Without objection, that will be so ordered.

(The document referred to is as follows:)

Frederic Wertham, M. D., New York, N. Y.

Specializing in neurology and psychintry since 1922.

Certified as spevizhst in both ueurology and psychiatry by the American Board: of Psychiatry and Neurology. Have also served as examiner on the beard in brain anatomy aud psychiatry.

Director, Lafargne Clinic, New York Oily.

Cousulting psychiutrist, deparhnent of hospitals, Queens Medical Center, New York City,

Psychiatric consultant and lecturer, Juvenile Aid Bureau of the New York City Police Department.

Director, Psychiatric Services and Mental Hygiene Clinie, Qucens General. Tivspital, 1239–52.

Consulting psychiatrist, Tribora Lhuspital, New York City, 1939–52,

Director, Quaker Bmergeney Service Readjustment Center (functioning wider the magistrates court), 1948–61.

Senior psyehiatrist, New York City Department of Hospilals, 1932–52.

In 1932 organized ind beezme director of fhe Psychiatrie Clinic of the Court of General Sessions in New York, first clinic of its kind in the United States.

1933–36, assistant to the director of Bellevue [ospital; in charge of prisom ward: in charge of children's psychiatric ward; in charge of aleoholic ward.

1926–29, divector of the Mentul Uygiene Clinte of Bellevue Lospital.

1929–31, fellow of the Nalional Research Couneil of Washington, 1D. €., to do: research in nenropathology and neuropsychiatry. First psychiatrist ever to receive this fellowship.

1922–29, psychiatrist at Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University.

1926–28, cliief resident psychiatrist, Johns Iloplins Tlospital.

1926–29, uxsistant in charge of the Mental Hygiene Clinic, Johns [jopkins. Hosnital.

Vaught psychiatry, psyehotherapy, and bratn xpatomy at Johns Liopkins Medi- eal School.

Postgraduate stildies in London, Vienna, Paris. and Munich, Tnvited to read scientific payers al the Medicul-Psychological Society of Paris and the Research: Inslitute of Psychiatry in Munich,

President of the Association for the Advancement of Psyehotherapy, 1043-51; coeditor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy.

Member of the Committee on Ethies of the Americun Academy of Neurology.

Lectured at Yale Law School, New York University Law School, Alassachusetts- Institnte of Vechnology, on psychiatry, criminology, and related subjects.

Reviewed hooks for iw reviews of New York University, Butfalo Lruw School, hkorthwestern Law Schoel, ete.

Psychiatrie consullunt to the Chief Censor of the United States Treasury Department.

Only psychiatrist ever employed by the city of New York whe is a member of all] three national nerropsychiatric associations: American Neurological Asso- gation, American Psychiatrie Associalion, American Association of Neuropathol- ogists. Fellow of the New York Acndemy of Merlicine, of the American Academy of Neuroloxy, of the American Medien] Associntion, ete.

PUBLICATIONS

The Brain as an Organ (Macmillan, 19384), used in medical schools throughout the world, a textbook of brain pathology.

Dark Legend, A study in murder. New York, 1941, and London, 1948.

The Show Of Violence (Doubleday, 1840).

The Catathymic Crisis (1987), description of a new mental disorder now tn- eluded in the leading textbooks of psychiatry.

Seduction of the Innocent (Rinehart, 1954).

Articles and papers on psychology, psychiatry, neurology, brain anatony, etc.